Impeovement in



@citan gratta fateci @fficeV GEORGE W. W. GOODWYN, OF NEWA ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

' Letters Patent No. 72,481, dated December 24, 1367.' i

IMPROVEMENT IN FILTERS.

TO ALL WHOM IT 'MAY OONCERN:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. W. GOODWYN, of' New Orleans, in the parish of'Orleans, and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and improved Filter; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full i and exact description` thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon. V

This invention consists in'a novel arrangement of a filtering-medium with a water-vessel andv a. vessel to receive the ltered'wat-,cn as hereinafter fully shown and described, whereby a very portable combination of a ilter and water-chamber is obtained, and in connection with a cooler if desired.

The accompanying drawing represents -a vertical central section of my invention. A represents a water-vessel, which may be constructed of sheet metal, and provided with a suitable base, a, and a lid or cover, B. This vessel may be of any suitable dimensions, and within it there is placed a smaller vessel, C, constructed with double walls, the lspace between which may, if desired, belled with any material which is a poor conductor of heat. This'linn'er vessel is also provided with a lid or cover, D, and is provided with rods or legs or feet, b, to keep the hitter-chamber E, which is atvthe bottom of C, some distance above the bottom of the vessel A. The filter-chamber E is equal in dia-meterte the circle formed bythe outer wall of C, and is separated at its top from the' space between the two walls of C by a partit-ion, c. Within this chamber there is placed any suitable filtering-material, such as charcoal, sand, either or both, or any of tlie known subi stances used for such purpose, and this filtering-medium is separated from the interior of the chamber C by a screen, d, the bottom of the filtering-medium being also formed by a screen, d. F is a faucet, which passes through the side of the vessel A into the vessel C, just above the filter-chamber. i

The water to be filtered is. placed in the vessel A, andby virtue of static pressure passes up through the lter-chamber E into-0, from which it is drawn, as required, through the faucet F. It' desired, ice maybe placed in the chamberC.

This device may be economically manufactured, and of quite limited dimensions. It is more especially' designed forthose sections of the southern States where rain and river water are 4necessarily'used exclusively for drinking purposes. i

i Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patenti r The combination of the exterior vessel A with the inner vessel C, provided at its lower end with a filterchamber, E, all constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

The above specification of my invention `signed by me, this first day of August, 1867.

GEO. W.A W. GOODWYN.

Witncsses:

S.' C. JONES, M. M. LIvINGsroN. 

